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      <h2>Who are we?</h2>
      <h3>2010-...: VUB BrusSense group</h3>
      <p class="info">Currently the NoiseTube project is  coordinated by the <a href="http://www.brussense.be">BrusSense group</a> at the Computer Science department of the <a href="http://www.vub.ac.be">Vrije Universiteit Brussel</a>.</p>
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        The following people are involved:
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          <li><a href="http://soft.vub.ac.be/soft/members/elliedhondt">Dr. Ellie D&apos;Hondt</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://soft.vub.ac.be/soft/members/elisagonzalezboix">Dr. Elisa Gonzalez Boix</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://soft.vub.ac.be/soft/members/wolfgangdemeuter">Prof. Dr. Wolfgang De Meuter</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://soft.vub.ac.be/soft/members/kennedykambona">Kennedy Kambona</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://soft.vub.ac.be/soft/members/jessezaman">Jesse Zaman</a></li>
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        Past contributors:
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          <li><a href="http://soft.vub.ac.be/soft/members/matthiasstevens">Dr. Matthias Stevens</a> (University College London)</li>
          <li><a href="http://arti.vub.ac.be/~steels">Prof. Dr. Luc Steels</a> (Promotor)
          <li>Sander Bartholomees (Master's student)</li>
          <li><a href="http://nico.maisonneuve.free.fr">Nicolas Maisonneuve</a> (external)</li>
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      <h3>2008-2009: Sony CSL Paris</h3>
      <p class="info">The NoiseTube project was founded in the summer of 2008 at the <a href="http://www.csl.sony.fr">Sony Computer Science Lab in Paris</a> under impulse of <a href="http://www.csl.sony.fr/staff/member/?username=steels">Prof. Dr. Luc Steels</a>, the lab director. The project ran until the end of 2009.</p>
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        The following people have been involved:
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          <li><a href="http://nico.maisonneuve.free.fr">Nicolas Maisonneuve</a> (project lead)</li>
          <li><a href="http://soft.vub.ac.be/soft/members/matthiasstevens">Matthias Stevens</a> (intern Jun-Dec 2008 &amp; Aug-Oct 2009)</li>
          <li>Bartek Ochab (intern H2 2009)</li>
          <li><a href="http://www.ai.rug.nl/~maria">Dr. Maria E. Niessen</a> (intern summer 2008)</li>
          <li><a href="http://www.csl.sony.fr/staff/member/?username=hanappe">Dr. Peter Hanappe</a></li>
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    <h2>Open source project</h2>
	<p class="info">Following a decision of Sony CSL, the software that has been developed as part of the NoiseTube project has been placed under the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html">GNU LGPL v2.1</a> open source license. The source code has been published on <a href="http://code.google.com/p/noisetube">Google Code</a>. This repository will facilitate future development and collaboration with third party contributors. We welcome anyone who wants to to contribute to the project (as a developer or otherwise) to contact us.
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    <h2>Sponsorship</h2>
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        <li>Matthias Stevens was supported from 2008 - 2012 by the Flemish Fund for Scientific Research (FWO). His Phd dissertation about the NoiseTube system can be downloaded <a href="http://brussense.be/phd-matthias/" >here</a>.</li>
        <li>Ellie D&apos;Hondt was supported from 2010-2013 by the Institute for the encouragement of Scientific Research and Innovation of the Brussels Capital Region  (<a href="http://www.innoviris.be/site/">Innoviris</a>).</li>
        <li>During 2008-2009 this work was partially supported by the Future and Emerging Technologies program (IST-FET) of the European Commission under contract IST-34721 (<a href="http://www.tagora-project.eu">TAGora project</a>).<br/><a href="http://www.tagora-project.eu"><img style="margin-top: 0.25em" border="0" src="/images/tagoralogo.png"/></a></li>
        <li>During 2012-2014 this work was partially supported by the <a href="http://www.iscope.net">i-Scope project</a> (interoperable Smart City services through an Open Platform for urban Ecosystems), supported by the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework - ICT Policy Support Programme (CIP-PSP) of the European Commission.</li>
        <li>From 2014 tool support for the project is partially provided by <a href="http://www.navicat.com" target="_blank"><img src="/images/icons/navicat_logo.jpg" style="width: 70px; height: 23px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a> </li>
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      <h2>Special thanks go to</h2>
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        <li>Marleen Wynants &amp; Sara Engelen of <a href="http://crosstalks.vub.ac.be">VUB Crosstalks</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://www.ademloos.be">Ademloos vzw</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://mech.vub.ac.be/avrg/members/patrick.htm">Prof. dr. ir. Patrick Guillaume</a> of Faculty of Applied Sciences, VUB.</li>
        <li>Amrit Kaur of the <a href="http://www.awaaz.org">Awaaz Fundation</a>, India</li>
        <li><a href="http://www.bruitparif.fr">BruitParif Observatory</a></li>
        <li>Sophie Boucher of <a href="http://www.csl.sony.fr">Sony CSL Paris</a></li>
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